Improvement in machines for attaching buttons



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM S. PLATT, OF VVATERBURY, AND GEORGE J. CAPEVVELL, OF CHESHIRE,

ASSIGNORS TO WILLIAMS. PLATT, OF WATERB UEY, CONNECTICUT, AND SAM- UEL M. PORTER, OF NEIV YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 118,743, dated September 5, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM S. PLATT, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, and GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, of Cheshire, in the county and State aforesaid, have invented a new and I1111)I'O"8d Machine for Attaching Buttons; and that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aecompanyin g drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a means for readily attaching buttons having a metallic fastening to the garment. The invention consists in attaching buttons to garments by means of the machine hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a side view of our machine; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig. 3, an end view Fig. 4, side view of treadle, Figs. 5, 6, and 7, detailed views of button, needle, and eyelet.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents the base of our machine, which may be made of cast-iron or any other suitable material. Cast with this base are two upright hearings, to b. B is the presser-head, which is also made of cast metal. This presser-head is in shape like a bell-crank, having trunnions jj cast onto the lower angle, so that it may be allowed to turn in the bearing a. Passing through and attached to the outer angle of said presserhead is the die 0, and to the third angle of said presser-head is attached, by aknucklej oint at one end, the intermediate link 01. The other end of said intermediate link is attached, by a knucklejoint, to the inner end of the main lever C, the main lever C being made of cast-iron or other suitable material, and so constructed as to tm'n upon trunnnions 7a, or in any other desirable way within the bearin g Z), the outer end of said lever extending back from said bearin gs beyond the base A and terminating in an eye, 8. The die 0 on its face may be of any desired size or shape to conform to the shape of the button it is designed to attach to the garment, the part of said die extendingupward into a screw, 1), which screw fits into corresponding screw-threads, cut into the forward angle of the presser-head. In order to adjust the die 0 a setscrew, m, is affixed to the screw 19, by which means said die may be extended or drawn into the presscr-head, as desired. Secured to the front part of the base A by a screw, 3 or any other desirable way, is an anvil 2, having fitted to two of its sides, by screws h It, the flat springs g g, these springs slightly projecting above the top surface of the anvil, and their upper edges bent slightly inward. The anvil is of wedgeshape, and its upper surface is slightly beveled from rear to front, and has formed therein a countersink.

To use our machine it is simply necessary to insert the base of a needle, 17, into the eyelet or rivet 20,- pass the head of said eye-let or rivet between the springs g g, as shown in Fig. 3; force the garment or cloth over the needle 1 until the rivet or eyelet w protrudes through the same; remove the needle o; and then, by means of a rod, 1, one end of which passes into the eye 8 of the main lever C and the other end to the treadle D, the main lever C is brought down, which forces down the outer end of the presserhead, to which has been attached a button, a, the face of said button being placed next the face of the die 0, and held in such position by the tongue f, and causes the eyelet or rivet w to enter into the neck of said button and upset against the cone 1) of said button. This being done, the pressure of the foot being removed from the treadle, the presser-head resumes its open position (see Fig. 1) through. the action of spring, E, in said treadle, and the button is slipped off the anvil z, and so from time to time as new buttons are applied.

Near the rear end of the base A is cast a projection, Z, upon which the under side of the main lever O is brought in contact, thereby preventin g the presser-head from battering the anvil by accidental blows, and also to insure the die upsetting the rivet to an equal extent in each i11- stance.

The machine may be attached to a standard or table by way of support.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patments, provided with the tongue f, constructed 111; is and operating as herein shown and described.

1. A machine for putting buttons with eyelets WM. S. PLATT. or rivets onto garments composed of a base, A, GEOR. J. CAPEWELL.

Presser-head B, intermediate link cl, main lever O, anvil t, springs g g, tongue f, and adjustable Witnesses:

die 6. EUNIOE B. CORNWALL, 2. A machine for attaching buttons to garin MARY E. CORNWALL. 

